Linotype-leader.



PATBNTED NOV. 17,1903.

J. A. PROULX. LINOTYPE LEADER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 14, 1903.

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UNITED STATES.

Patented November 17, 1903;

PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH ALFRED PROULX, OF VANCOUVER, CANADA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TOALFRED WILLIAM CHANDLER FINBOW, OFVANCOUVER,

CANADA.

-' LlNOTYPE-LEADER.'

srncirrcArxourormin part of. Letters Patent No. 744,102, dated November17, 1903.;

Applioatiun filed January 14, 1903. Serial No. 139,053. (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatLJosEPH ALFRED PROULX, a citizen of the Dominion ofCanada, residing at Vancouver, in the Province of British Oolumbia,Canada, have invented a. new and useful Improvement in Linotype-Leaders,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to. an attachment for a linotype-machine designedto automatically introduce the leads to space between the slugs informing a column of printed matter.

The device consists of a magazine of leads secured to the top bar or capof the vise of the machine or to any other convenient position,fromwhich magazine the leads are delivered by a mechanism operated bythe movement of the machine and dropped into a chute which conveys themto the right-hand or entering end of the chase, the leads beingdelivered alternately with the slugs as they enter the chase from thegaging-knives.

The construction and operationof the (16-.

vice are fully described in'the following specification, reference beingmade to the drawings which accompany it, inwhicl 1 Figure 1 is asmall-scale front elevationof the portion of a linotype-machine, showingthe location of my attachment in relation to adjacent parts. Fig. 2 is aplan of my leader, showing its attachment to the vise and the means ofoperation; Fig. 3, a perspective 4 is a front elevation and part sectionon the line b b in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 isavertical section through themagazine on the line a a in Fig. 4:; Fig. 6, a detail perspective of thediverting-piece at the lower end of the chute. Fig. 7 is a verticalsection through the foot of the magazine, showing the blade-guide andattachment to the base-plate. Fig. Sis an enlarged detail of the lockrod and bolt for maintaining the mechanism of my device out of action.

Throughontthe drawings the parts of the linotype-machine itself, towhich my leader is shown attached, are distinguished by small letters,while the various parts of my invention are indicated by figures.

Fig. 1, which is introduced to show the position of my leader inrelation to familiar parts of the machine, represents in front elevationthat part of a linotype-machine to the left of the operator, embracingthe matrixassembling elevator a, the matrix-delivery channel 01 to thefirst elevator, the top bar or cap 12 of vise, the guide g of firstelevator,

and the chase c, in which the finished slugs are assembled, 19indicating the presser, which moves each slug up to the column in thechase as the slug comes through the opening 0 from the mold-wheel andgaging-knife.

The device consists of an open-front magazine 2, adapted to hold asupply of leads 1, arranged vertically onev above the other on theirflats with their length extending parallel to the front of the machine.At the upper end the inside surfaces of the walls of the magazine areflared, as 3, to facilitate the en= tering of a group of leads. Themagazine is secured by flanges 2 to a base-plate 4, by which the deviceis fastened to the upper side of the vise-cap u, so as to project beyondthe righthand end of it. The front strips 5 of the magazine are cut away(see Fig. 5) a short distance from the bottom,and a bar 6 extends acrossthe front, the inner side of which bar is flush with the inside faces ofthe front strips, and its upper edge beveled downwardtoward the iusideto prevent the leads from catching on it,

the lower edge being also beveled, as shown, for a reason which will beexplained later. The bar 6 is attached to the strips 5 by screws 8through elongated holes 7 in upwardlyprojecting resilient members 7,secured to or integral with the bar 6, auxiliary spring members 9 beingheld against the members 7 by the same screws 8. The lower edge of thebar '6 can thus be adjusted to leave a space 10, through which thebottom lead of the magazine can be pushed out to the front, theelongated holes '7 enabling the space 10 to be set to the thickness ofthe lead being used and the outwardspring resistance preventing themechanism being strained or broken if a-lead should happen to be bent soas to catch on the upper edge of the bar. Apertures 6 are provided tofacilitate the adjustment of the space 10 to the thickness of the leadbeing used. The bottom lead is pushed ICO out by a blade 12, slidable onthe base-plate 4 in guides 24, and through a suitable open: ingin thebottom of the back wall of the magazine. A-reciprocatingmovementthroughthe width of the magazine is imparted to the blade by a lever 30, whichis fulcrumed on a pin 31, secured to the base-plate 4, and connected tothe strengtheningbar of the blade by the screw-pin 26.

Between the fulcrum-pin 31 and the blade connection 26 is a lock-rod 32,connected to the 16V6l'30 by the pin 33 and slidable in an upwardprojection 4 0m the front edge of the base-plate 4. A compression-spring34 on the rod between 4 and the lever maintains the blade in thebackward position against a spring-stop 27, which may be pressed down toenable the blade to be withdrawn when required. The lock-rod 32 isprovided with a depression 32" in sucha position that when the pivotedlock member 35 is turned over to engage it the lever 30 is held out ofreach of the operatingbolt, to be hereinafter described, and thereforeout of action.

The reciprocation of the blade may be effected from any convenient partof the mechanism of the machine; but I prefer to utilize the forwardmovement of the metal-pottto the mold-disk m as being in every waysuitable, and I introduce an intermediate bolt to communicate suchmovement to the lever 30. This bolt is slidable in the groove of a lightbracket 41, secured by the open washer 41 to a screw or bolt of themachine-frame f. It bears at the outer end against the edge of the lever30 and is provided at the other with .a bent-over end 40 to engage amember 45,

secured to the upper side of the metal-pot t. Thus the forward movementof the metal-pot 25 against the mold-disk m brings the striking member45 against the turned-over end 40 of the bolt 40 and moves it forwardagainst the resistance of'the spring 34, whereby the blade 12 is pressedinto engagement with the bottom lead in the magazine and slides itthrough the aperture 10. In front of this aperture and sloping from theright-hand corner of it is the chute 50, having 'a mouth portion acrossone end of which is a pin 52, which serves to bear up one end of a leadas it is pushed from the magazine and enables the other end of it tofall end on into the chute. The lower end of the chute delivers into theright-hand end of the chase just in advance of the presserp and aboutwhere the slugs s are delivered through the opening 0, and in order toinsure that the leads will be delivered on end the angle of the chutechanges a short distance from the end, as 50*, to a more upright one andan adjustable divertingpiece 51 is interposed from the upper side in thepath of a lead coming down the chute. This effects the completeup-ending of the lead as it lands in the chase. The shape of thediverting-piece 51 is somewhat as drawn in Fig. 6, and as it is onlyheld by the lateral friction grip of the sides of the chute on slackingthe screws 53 it may be moved to any suitable angle or position todeliver the lead as desired and the screw tightened to secure it there.The bottom of the chute is provided throughout its length with twonarrow parallel ridges or rails 55, which prevent the coherence of thesmooth, flat, and sometimes wet surface of the leads from interferingwith their free movement down the slope. Each lead as it is deliveredinto the chase is pushed along to the column of assembled slugs by themovement of the presser p.

In all machines where the movement of the presser is derived from thatof the frame which carries the mold-wheel there is an extra movement ofthe presser-p, which is available for moving up the entered lead to thecolumn in the chase, and the cycle of movement of the parts of themachine affecting my leader is as follows: The mold-disk m moves forwardagainst the matrix. The metal-pot t moves forward against the mold-disk,releasing the lead from the magazine 2 and introducing it into the chasec. The metal-pott retires, operating the presserp to move the lead 1 upto the column in the chase c and allowing the blade 12 to be withdrawnfrom the magazine of leads, permitting them to fall, and another lead isbrought opposite the outlet 10. The mold-disk m rotates, bringing thepreviouslycast slug in the mold against the knife, and the slug ispressed out of the mold and through the opening 0 into the chase o. Themold-disk retires, operating the presser p to move the last-entered slug8 against the column in the chase a. This is the cycle of movements onthe machine to which I have applied my leader; butI realize that wherethe presser movement is otherwise obtained I may require to introduce anextra movement of the presser p to move up the leads against the column;but this does not affect my invention, which I claim to be as follows:

1. In combination with the slug molding and assembling mechanism of alinotype-machine, a lead-holding magazine secured to the machine, meanscooperating with the slug molding and delivering mechanism whereby alead is released from the magazine and delivered to the chase of themachine alternately with each slug, a device for looking saidlead-releasing mechanism from operation.

2. In a linotype-machine, the combination of a lead-holding magazinehaving an aperture through which a lead may be pushed, a blade slidablein the plane of the aperture, an operative system from the moldingmechanism of the machine whereby the blade may be actuated to push alead from the magazine, means for locking said blade from operation anda receiving-hopper and chute to deliver the lead to the chase where theslugs are assembled.

3. In a linotype-machine, an automatic lead-delivering device comprisinga baseplate secured to the vise-cap of the machine,

a vertical leadholding magazine secured to such base and having afrontal aperture through which a lead may be passed'out, a bladeslidable from the back in the plane of the aperture, a lever connectedto the blade and fulcrumed to the base of the device, means fortransmittingthe forward movement of the metal-pot of the machine to thelever; a spring to withdraw the blade during the backward movement ofthe metal pot; means to lock the mechanism out of action, and areceivinghopper and chute to turn the lead and deliver it on end intothe chase where the slugs are assembled.

4. In a device of the class described having avertical lead-holdingmagazine and means cooperatin g with the slug-molding mechanism forelfecting the release of a lead for each slug cast; anoutwardly-resilient adjustable ontlet-bar at the exit of the lead fromthe magazine; a receiving-hopper having a cross-pin to sustain one endof a discharged lead and facilitate its turning front end down; aninclined chute forming the bottom and continuation of such hopper andterminating in the chase, and an adjustable diverting device at thelower end of the chute, to effeet the tip-ending of the lead as it isdelivered in the chase.

5. In a device of the class described, having cap 4;, the magazine 2having flared upper init -'let 3, the outlet 10 havingupwardly-projecting-adjustable and resilient attaching members 7, Sand9, the blade 12, check 27, lever 30, lock-bar 32 having detent 32 andlock device 35, the spring 34, the intermediate bolt 40 and bracket 41secured to the frame of the machine, the metal-pot attachment 45, and

the chute for up-ending and delivering the released leads to the chaseof the machine.

-In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH ALFRED PROULX.

In presence of- ROWLAND BRITTAIN, ELLICE WEBBER.

